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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375711635

ISBN-139780375711633

eBay Product ID (ePID)202455917

Product Key Features

Book TitleBorder Kingdom : Poems

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Places, General, American / General

Publication Year2018

GenrePoetry

AuthorD. Nurkse

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.1 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-354259

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal811/.54

SynopsisFrom the award-winning poet: a powerful collection that explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons. Now in paperback. In "Ben Adan," a stunning poem in the opening sequence of the collection, we witness the drama between a captor and the prisoner commanded to dig his own grave ("perhaps in a moment / he will lift me up / and hold me trembling, / more scared than I / and more relieved"). "After a Bombing" examines children's drawings as deep symbolic reactions to 9/11. The subtly majestic "Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn" builds the poignant case for a lost world: "Where is Policastro the locksmith now?" the poet asks. "Half-blind, he wore two pairs of glasses / held together by duct tape, / . . . / afterward the key turned / for you but not for me." In exploring the small empires of human conflict, which expand in all directions, Nurkse is attuned to the scraps of beauty or insight that marginal characters and corners of the world might offer up in the midst of moral darkness. With The Border Kingdom , he has given us a collection unfailingly rich in imagery, undaunted in subject and spirit., In a collection of urgent and intimate poems, D. Nurkse explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present with which it resonates, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons. In "Ben Adan," a stunning poem in the opening sequence of the collection, we witness the stirring drama between a captor and the prisoner commanded to dig his own grave ("perhaps in a moment / he will lift me up / and hold me trembling, / more scared than I / and more relieved"). "After a Bombing" examines children's drawings as deep symbolic reactions to 9/11. The subtly majestic "Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn" builds the poignant case for a lost world- "Where is Policastro the locksmith now?" the poet asks. "Half-blind, he wore two pairs of glasses / held together by duct tape, / . . . / afterward the key turned / for you but not for me." A poet of unique force and sensitivity, Nurkse refuses to pass over the marginal characters and corners of the world, attuned to the scraps of beauty or insight they might offer up in the midst of moral darkness. In The Border Kingdom he has given us an exceptionally powerful collection of poems-unfailingly rich in imagery, undaunted in subject and spirit. Jericho Sometimes in a high window a white curtain knotted against itself gives a glimpse of the lovers as they were before the war- with great concentration and silence they undo a mother-of-pearl snap while a cat perched on the sill looks down with burning eyes. From the Hardcover edition.

LC Classification NumberPS3564.U76B67 2018